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Great research Tim.
The Macquarie dictionary needs to invent a new word - “gillard” - a collective noun for a stack of lies.
Eg: I read an article by Tim Blair this morning that included some great Wayne Swan gillards.

Tim you may want to dig out the tiny bit in an interview of Penny Wong on 3AW with this mornings Neil Mitchel Show (it was early in the show). She seemed to say that they have been well aware there would be no surplus since October.

PeterN replied to John s
Fri 21 Dec 12 (06:57pm)

@ Ian of Watsonia

In that same 3AW interview Penny Wrong also tried to blame the high $A for the “unexpected” deterioration in profits and hence tax receipts. For god’s sake, we’ve been at parity or better with the $US for 2 years now.

Swan is just ridiculously incompetent. Everyone with half a brain already knew it was bulldust the first time he said it. How Australia let this faker play dress-ups as “The Treasurer” for the last 5 years is beyond me.

I was going to suggest Mr Magoo (Ahh Magoo - you’ve done it again...), but his stuff-ups generally benefit society in the end, such as stopping thieves and swindlers.

JennyF replied to mr.simmon
Sun 23 Dec 12 (11:41am)

Excellent, F Troop is what the Government is.

When Tony Abbott, Joe Hockey and others said Labor would never have a surplus, Gillard and Swan derided them and called them economic illiterates. And the so called economists who say debt is not bad haven’t a clue, this is what got us into the GFC and continues to do so, doing the same thing and expecting a different result . But hey, this is Labor, so the usual suspects will be out there beating the drum that all is wonderful.
Lemmings!

Okay then, this must be where Abbott and Hockey do the same to those labor cretins. Deride them, call them all the names under the sun, but after a few statements both will fall quiet again, just in case big bad Tone is once more called a misogynistic nutjob bully thug, and we couldn’t have that now could we?
Of course, big bad Tone should not get down in the gutter with these slime, no we couldn’t have that. He’s trying to get the perception across that he is a caring, sharing, woman loving darling of a man.
He may well be that, but nobody is listening, except for the rusted ons. He has to change that perception, and if that means he must do it by challenging and attacking gillard and the others in that party, so be it.
He has to attack, and attack, and attack. No more hiding behind skirts.
Yet all I hear is how bad labor is, but that is because there is no opposition to take them to task.

I can barely contain my excitement today, anticipating what new and interesting ways that Lenore and Michelle will find to blame Tony Abbott for this.

Yeah. Are you seeing how Lenore Taylor is desperately trying to whip up a storm over the Ashby/Slipper abuse of process decision? She has already written 3 articles on it with even one byline and content saying “it’s not Watergate” [sic]. In other words well you can connect the dots. She wants it out there that Abbott should be slammed. She wants some Parliament recognition and Hansard cred.

Guess what Lenore? no one’s listening and the thing has died down faster than a sunken souffle thanks once again to the impeccable timing of our friends at the Australian Labor Party.

The really scary bit is that anybody believed that duo back in 2010. Or ever.

Even “whatever it takes” Richo knew instinctively what the voters would believe and what was a lie too far. Before him, there were some Labor people who had principles (plus a great sense of humour) one could respect, like Fred Daly; it was my God, my family, my party, not necessarily in that order.
But with the current mob you quickly got the drift that they would say anything that served the purpose! And the purpose was not usually all that admirable. Swan and Gillard are the epitome, but there’s a large cast in support with similar tendencies. Old Labor has all but disappeared in the rear view mirror, and what we have now is unworthy.

They were never going to do it, and they knew that even as they made these statements.

This government has failed every test of proper administration and economic intellect.

It has failed on education, border protection, defense, budget, foreign relations and international aid, and most importantly nearly broken the nation’s spirit.

What’s next? An attempt to muzzle the press from talking about all of this.

This kind of scorched-earth policy will leave the next government with a disaster to sort out while being sniped at by the usual Labor luvvies placed on the public payroll in the ABC and public service unions.

Yes, surely even dribbling trolls can now see why this ‘government’ must be chucked out on its ear.

Why would anyone believe the clueless Swan?
“Birds of a feather flock together.”
It would appear that even if Swan had been honest previously, hanging out with Juliar changed that.
He ‘didn’t see the GFC coming’ and it is only now that he ‘noticed ‘ the falling tax receipts that he knows a budget surplus can’t happen.
If this fool spent less time in front of his mirror pretending to be the boss he may have noticed the things a treasurer should have been looking for.
Meanwhile, the independents’ credibility is non-existent. How could they possibly stand up and say they support this sham of a non-functioning government ?
Now we can expect a scorched earth policy to be handed over after the next election.

Victoria, I heard Tony Windsor on my ABC this morning, explaining why it’s Tony Abbott’s fault!
The reason?
Because Tony Abbott goaded them into promising a surplus!
Methinks Macquarie needs to change the definition of Independent to ‘Labor sycophant’.

The Budget will be back in surplus in 2013 if I’m re-elected.

That is not a broken promise - the current PM was NOT elected by the people - but was put into power by the 3 Amigos after a few weeks of trading principles for empty promises. If the PM had been elected, there would not have been any necessity for the weeks of delay and the world’s worst 17 or so minute speech by a very dependent independent.
It would be a broken promise only if the PM had been re-elected.